Intrathecal synthesis of immunoglobulins in eosinophilic meningoencephalitis due to Angiostrongylus cantonensis

Clinical and Diagnostic Laboratory Immunology

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 452-455

  Dorta Contreras, Alberto Juan ^a   Reiber, Hansotto ^b,c  

^a Hospital Pediatrico Docente San Miguel del Padron   (Cuba)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^c Neurochemisches Labor   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN A ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M;

ADOLESCENT; ANGIOSTRONGYLUS CANTONENSIS; ARTICLE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CUBA; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; EOSINOPHILIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN PRODUCTION; LARVA; MALE; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; NEUROIMMUNOLOGY; PLEOCYTOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0031830663     PISSN: 1071412X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/cdli.5.4.452-455.1998     Document Type: Article

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